From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 07:58:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0925C16A422 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:58:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [209.167.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB82743D62 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:58:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 72178 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Nov 2005 07:58:25 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(209.167.16.15):. Processed in 1.489504 secs); 26 Nov 2005 07:58:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fuze) (209.167.16.15) by pearl.ibctech.ca with SMTP; 26 Nov 2005 07:58:23 -0000 From: "Steve Bertrand" To: "'Christopher Kelley'" Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:58:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 thread-index: AcXyXBE83iseVSx4SsiDNTEYcN0y9wAAjPBw X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <113299190467572172@pearl.ibctech.ca> Message-Id: <20051126075826.AB82743D62@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: RE: Unable to install on large hard drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:58:28 -0000 > I have a small partition for the windows system that is 5 > gig, a large partition for programs and data that is 18 gig, > and around 15 gig left for fBSD. The installer squawks about > the drive geometry, and says it will use a more sane > geometry. I set up the slices and it doesn't squawk about > writing them, and then attempts to install the system. I > immediately get an error "Write failure on transfer!" and it > can't seem to write anything to the drive. > This may be the wrong approach, but what exactly are you feeding to the installer in regards to space per filesystem? ie: - 250m (for /) - xxxm (for swap) - xm (for /usr) - etc etc I've ignored those errors in the past, and have had no difficulty. This has occurred since the 4.x days for me. Mind you, I never have (and god willing) never will run a Windows system alongside FBSD, but perhaps trying to feed it what you want for the most of the filesystems, and when you get to the last, just accept the default block amount that FBSD provides you with, and let it use the rest. > The good news is, it isn't harming my windows partitions. I > can easily boot back into windows and everything there works. I'd suggest backing up your data on the Windows partition(s) if you have anything crutially important (especially if you are not familiar with recovering data), before you keep hammering at it. Steve